[bitmapbrother]

Ah, synthetic benchmarks. Are you really sure they're consistently twice as slow? Your link shows otherwise.

  mandelbrot 17% slower
  fannkuch-redux 34% slower
  fasta 38% slower
  fasta-redux 39% slower
  pidigits 44% slower

So much for predicting my next argument.

[CherryPickMuch]

How come you left out these ones?

    spectral-norm 115% slower
    reverse-compliment 121% slower
    n-body 136% slower
    regex-dna 235% slower
    k-nucleotide 253% slower

Cherry picking your data shows you're either dishonest or really lost in your denial.

[bitmapbrother]

Perhaps you should read his reply more carefully next time. He said the benchmarks were "consistently 2x" as slow. He was wrong and the rest of the synthetic benchmarks you posted just corroborated my point.

As for being dishonest, well, you're commenting from a newly minted temp account so it would seem you didn't have the courage/backbone to use your real one.